Indian heart journal
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Indian heart journal · Mar 2012
A look into Lee's score: peri-operative cardiovascular risk assessment in non-cardiac surgeries-usefulness of revised cardiac risk index.
The revised cardiac risk index (RCRI/Lee's score) was designed for peri-operative risk assessment before elective major non-cardiac surgeries. Through this article, we report the usefulness of RCRI in our daily practice, while evaluating patients undergoing surgeries of varying risk. ⋯ The RCRI is a useful tool in pre-operative risk stratification. It should perhaps be further updated to improve its predictive accuracy.